US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Sept. 15 for "Route setting method, program, and moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,305, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Route setting method, program, and moving body" was invented by Yohei Chishiki (Tokyo), Kenji Takao (Tokyo) and Kazushige Takaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The objective of the present invention is to move appropriately along a set reference route. This route setting method includes: a step for acquiring information relating to a reference route, which is a route along which a moving body moves; a step for determining whether the moving body is positioned on the reference route; and a step for setting a return route, which is a route for a...